Fluid-supply fitting.



"P.GONNOLLY.

FLUID SUPPLY FITTING. APPLICATION FILED DEO.18,1902. RENEWED JULY25,'1906.

PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906.

PATRICK CONNOLLY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FLUID-SUPPLY FITTING- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed December 18, 1902. Renewed July 25,1906. Serial No.327,751.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK CoNNoLLY, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, county of Kings, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fluid Supply Fittings,fully described and represented in the following specification and theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved fitting speciallyadapted for forming hot and cold water connections for laundry-tubs,although the invention is not to be limited to use with laundry-tubs orfor forming hot and cold water connections.

A full understanding of the invention can best be given by a detaileddescription of preferred constructions embodying the various featuresthereof, and such a description will now be given in connection with theaccompanying drawings, showing such a preferred construction.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of thepreferred form of fitting, showing the same attached to the partition ofa compartment-tub. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal sectional view of a modified construction. Fig.

4 is a section on line 4 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, represents a casing provided withinlet-openings 11 and 12 at one end, which when the fitting is used forhot and cold Water supply will be connected with hot and cold watersupply pipes in any suitable manner. The casing is divided interiorly bya partition 13, running from a point between the inlet-openings 11 and12 into two chambers 15 and 16, and

each side of the casing shown, which is intended for use on a partitionof a compart ment-tub, is provided with outlet-openings 19 and 20 fromthe chambers 15 and 16, re-

spectively, these outlet-openings being adapted to receive suitableoutlet-cocks 21. The casing is preferably of rectangular form and isintended to be secured to the partition of a compartment-tub for thepurpose of supplying hot and cold water to compartments on each side ofthe v artitions. Preferably the partition will be cut away to receivethe casing, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the top of the casing will lieflush with and form a continuation of the top of the partition, and

' the casing is preferably formed on the bot tom and front end withflanges 26 for extending on each side of the partition to hold thecasing in position. The casing is preferably formed at its back end witha downwardlyextending lug 27, provided with an opening for receiving ascrew or bolt for fastening the casing to the tub. Thecasing is alsopreferably formed to extend a short distance beyond the back wall of thetub, and this extension preferably extends slightly clownward from themain portion of the casing, so that the inlet-openings 11 and 12 may befar enough apart for convenient attachment of the supply-pipes, whilepermitting the top of the casing to be of less depth than wouldotherwise be necessary in order to provide for such convenientattachment of the supply-pipes.

The partition 13 is preferably of such a formfor example, as shown inFig. 1as to permit the outlet-openings l9 and 20 to be placed in lineparallel with the top wall of the casing, so that the outlet-cocks willbe positioned parallel with the top of the tub-partition.

Figs. 3 and 4 show a slightly modified construction, in which the casingis not formed to extend backward beyond the rear wall of the tub and inwhich downwardlyextending wings 30 are provided on the easing forsecuring the casing in place by bolts 31, extending through said wingsand the tubpartition. In this figure also the casing is shown as havinginstead of the side outletopenings 19 and 20 top outlet-openings 32 and33 in the top wall of the casing for receiving vertical and branchingfaucets 34 and 35, each formed with branching outlet ends for supplyingboth compartments of the tub.

It will be understood that the invention is not to be limited to theexact construction and form of the fitting, as shown in the drawings forthe purpose of illustrating the invention and to which the foregoingdescription has been mainly confined, but that the invention includeschanges and modifications thereof within the claims.

What I claim is 1. A fitting for forming connections, as for hot andcold water, for compartment-tubs, formed of a casing having twoinlet-openings at one end and a partition dividing the interior of thecasing into two compartments with which the inlet-openings respectivelycommunicate, and having in both sides of the casing an outletopeningfrom each compartment, substantially as described.

2. A fitting for forming connections, as for formed of a casing havingtwo inlet-openings at one end and a partition dividing the inte rior ofthe casing into two compartments with which the inlet-openingsrespectively communicate, and having in both sides of the casing anoutlet-opening from each compartment, the outlet-openings in each sideof the casing being arranged in line parallel with the top of thecasing, substantially as described.

4. A fitting for forming connections, as for hot and cold water, formedof a casing adapted to be set into the wall of a tub, and having twoinlet-openings at one end and a partition extending from between theinlet-openings to a point on the top wall of the casing and dividing theinterior of the casing into two compartments with which theinlet-openings respectively communicate, and having an outlet-openingfrom each of said compartments, substantially as described.

5 A fitting for forming connections, as for hot and cold water, formedof a casing adapt ed to be set into the wallof a tub, and having twoinlet-openings at one end and a partition dividing the interior of thecasing into two compartments with which the inlet-0penings respectivelycommunicate, and having outlet-openings in the side of the casing, onefrom each of said compartments, substantially as described.

6. A fitting for forming connections, as for hot and cold water, forcompartment-tubs, formed of a casing having a partition dividing theinterior of the casing into two compartments, a back extension of agreater depth than the main portion of the casing,

inlet-openings to said back extension communicating with the twocompartments respectively, and having in both sides of the casing anoutlet-o ening from each compart ment, substantiall y as described.

7. A fitting for forming connections, as for hot and cold water, formedof a casing having a partition dividing the interior of the casing intotwo compartments, a back extension of a greater depth than the mainportion of the casing, inlet-openings to said extension communicatingwith the two compartments respectively, and having an outlet-openingfrom each of said compartments, substantially as described.v

8. A fitting for forming connections, as for hot and cold water, formedof a casing having two inlet-openings at one end and a partitionextending from between the inlet-openings to a point on the top wall ofthe casing and dividing the interior of the casing into twocompartments, and having an outlet-opening from each compartment,substantially as described.

9. A fitting for forming connections, as for hot and cold water, formedof a rectangular casing having two inlet-openings at one end and apartition dividing the interior of the casing into two compartments withwhich the inlet-openings respectively communicate, and having anoutlet-opening from each of said compartments, said outlet-opening beingarranged in line parallel with the. top of the casing, substantially asdescribed.

10. Afitting for forming connections, as for hot and cold water, formedof a rectangular casing having two inlet-openings and a partitiondividing the interior of the casing into two compartments with whichvthe inletopenings respectively communicate, and having an outlet-openingfrom each of said compartments, said outlet-openings being arranged inline parallel with the top of the casing, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

PATRICK CONNOLLY. Witnesses:

A. L, KENT,

W. H. KENNEDY.

